Microsoft 'tried to doctor Wikipedia' — Microsoft has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse today after it offered to pay an Australian blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site. — While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak …

802.11n in all but name: draft hardware in the clear — Late last week, we reported that the IEEE's 802.11 working group signed off on Draft 2.0 and sent it out to the rest of the IEEE membership for approval. More details have emerged from the working group's meetings in London and it's …

Adobe and its P2P Ambitions — Adobe Systems, now the owner of Flash multimedia technology, seems to be getting pretty serious about spreading its tentacles into new product categories - from VoIP to peer-to-peer networking. But it is P2P that is at the heart of San Jose, Calif.-based company's grand design.

Mark Cuban: BitTorrent is Doomed — So, here's Cuban's argument. He believes that from the business standpoint, BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer technologies are great. They save massive amounts of bandwidth and help efficiently distribute large media files, possibly even speeding up transfers.

Japanese Teen Idol Tries To Destroy SNES Carts — PAL PS3 Launch Details Delayed — From Sony mouthpiece Three Speech, on why the planned announcement of PAL PS3 launch details is a no-show: … So now even the delayed launch announcements are delayed? I'll let you make your own jokes about this one.

Google Image Results Redesign — I'm not sure when exactly this happened, but Google seems to have gone live with the redesigned Google Image search results they've been experimenting with for some time. Now instead of seeing the file name, dimensions, size and URL, you'll only be getting some "context-aware" snippet below the image.

Google Groups Redesign Live — Google Groups has a new design now which Google tested out as a Beta for some time. The design looks sleek but there were some problems with the redesign, too. — [Thanks Max!] — Google Groups Redesign Live by Philipp Lenssen |

The Job Board Bubble — The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped. — Job Boards are the product du jour of tech blogs. We have one, and countless others have sprung up as well.

Feds: Details of ISP snooping haven't been decided — WASHINGTON—The Bush administration hasn't settled on what data it would like Internet service providers to retain about their subscribers or for how long, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Tuesday.

Apple Special Event on February 20 — We have just gotten an anonymous tip from a source that indicates that Apple is planning a special event on February 20 to introduce Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), iLife '07 and iWork '07 as well as updated Mac Pros. Mac Pros will be available immediately …